Ming Tsai Biography
Ming Tsai is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, and television personality from the United States. Tsai’s restaurants have specialized in east-west fusion cuisine, with major stakes in Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Massachusetts, from 1998 to 2017, and Blue Dragon in Boston’s Fort Point Channel neighborhood.
How old is Ming Tsai? – Age
He is 58 years old as of 29 March 2022. He was born in 1964 in Newport Beach, California, United States.
Ming Tsai Family
He was raised in Dayton, Ohio, where he attended The Miami Valley School, to Iris (née Lee), a Chinese restaurant owner, and Stephen Tsai [de], an engineer. Tsai’s maternal grandparents emigrated from Taiwan to Dayton after fleeing China during the Cultural Revolution. He helped with the cooking while growing up in his mother’s restaurant, Mandarin Kitchen. Tsai is the grandson of Chinese composer Lee Pao-Chen and Lauren Tsai’s uncle.
Tsai later attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, before going on to Yale University to study engineering and play varsity squash. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity’s Phi chapter there and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1986. In 1989, he graduated from Cornell University with a master’s degree in hotel administration and hospitality marketing. He attended culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris during the summer following his sophomore or junior year at Yale. Tsai is fluent in four languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, French, and Spanish.
Ming Tsai Wife
Since April 1996, Tsai and Polly Talbott have been married. David and Henry are their two sons. Tsai’s squash coach at Yale, David Talbott, and Mark Talbott, a former World No. 1 hardball squash player, are Tsai’s brothers-in-law.
Ming Tsai Cookbooks
He has written five cookbooks: Blue Ginger, Simply Ming, Ming’s Master Recipes, Simply Ming: One-Pot Meals, and Simply Ming in Your Kitchen.
What is chef Ming’s net worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $10 Million.
Ming Tsai Restaurants
Tsai and Polly Talbott opened Blue Ginger, his first restaurant, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1998. Blue Ginger, an Asian Fusion restaurant, has been recognized by Zagat and James Beard, as well as many other regional awards. Tsai was named “Chef of the Year” by Esquire Magazine the year the restaurant opened. Tsai opened Blue Ginger Noodle Bar, a mini-restaurant within Blue Ginger, on March 30, 2010. Tsai closed Blue Ginger in June 2017 after 19 years in business. The reason was the expiration of a lease and Tsai’s focus on ChowStirs, a new fast-casual stir-fry concept restaurant set to open in Boston in early 2018.
Tsai opened Blue Dragon in 2013 in Boston’s Fort Point Channel neighborhood, an east-west tapas-style gastropub that has earned a Zagat’s rating and was named an Esquire Magazine “Best New Restaurant” in its first year. Tsai will be the chef and partner at BB at the Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana, in 2020.
What is chef Ming’s Net Worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $10 Million.
How tall is chef Ming?
He stands at 6 feet 0 inches. (1.83 m).
Ming Tsai Career
Tsai began his television career on chef Sara Moulton’s cooking show Cooking Live in 1997 when she had him fill in for her for one week. From 1998 to 2003, he hosted East Meets West on the Food Network. Simply Ming, a PBS food show, is hosted by him.
He was a judge on the PBS show Cooking Under Fire in 2005. Ming Tsai defeated Iron Chef Bobby Flay in the sixth episode of season one of Iron Chef America in 2005. Tsai competed on The Next Iron Chef in 2010 but was eliminated in the seventh week. In 2014, Tsai appeared on an episode of Top Chef. His other television appearances include a 2005 episode of Zoom Out on Zoom, a PBS show, and a 2006 episode of Arthur, a PBS children’s television show.
Tsai was a squash player at Yale, where he was the team’s number two, and he was named All-Ivy League in 1986. Tsai played professionally on the European circuit while attending culinary school in France. Tsai competed in a celebrity squash match against professional golfer Brad Faxon in 2004 at a Boston squash club. In 2005, he competed in a charity match at a squash club in San Francisco against Mark Talbott.